Joseph Smith’s “Sacred” Scrying Stone Revealed

Check out the latest LDS craziness emanating from Salt Lake City. The Mormon leaders have at long last finally released photos of Joseph Smith’s “peep-stone” that he employed to produce the “sacred” Book of Mormo -n. Incredible!!

Keep in mind that during all my years of being involved in Mormonism, the official LDS Church position was always that Joseph Smith utilized a mystical “Urimm and Thummim to “translate” the magical “gold plates” and produce the Book of Mormon. RIGHT! Whenever the question of a “magical seer-stone in a darkened hat” came up – it was always dismissed as false and mean-spirited “anti-Mormon” ranting. Now the world learns that the LDS Church has ALWAYS had possession of Smith’s “sacred” scrying stone, and today they publicly admitted it. Oh my!

It appears David Whitmer’s testimony of the “translation” process was perfectly correct all along. Whitmer was one of the Three Witnesses whose testimony is in the front of every modern B of M, so his credibility on the subject is impeccable, even though completely misguided. In his book “An Address to All Believers in Christ” – Whitmer declares: “I will now give you a description of the manner in which the Book of Mormon was translated. Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine. A piece of something resembling parchment would appear, and on that appeared the writing. One character at a time would appear, and under it was the interpretation in English. Brother Joseph would read off the English to Oliver Cowdery, who was his principal scribe, and when it was written down and repeated to Brother Joseph to see if it was correct, then it would disappear, and another character with the interpretation would appear. Thus the Book of Mormon was translated —-” (Page 12).

C’mon good Mormon people – give this post some serious objective, critical thinking. By the modern LDS Church’s own admission, this egg-shaped stone below was the primary tool that Smith used to conjure up the Book of Mormon!!

Imagine this stone placed in Smith’s hat and magical “parchment” appearing out of the darkness within it. Translation of ancient precious metal plates? Hardly! This process is what the ancient biblical texts refer to as scrying, or “peeping” – and God strictly forbade such practices. The Prophet Isaiah had this to say about the topic: “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? —— And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness” (Isaiah 8:19-22).Indeed, Smith declared that the Book of Mormon truly has a “familiar spirit” (i.e. a demonic entity according to the Bible). Indeed, the LDS people constantly seek after the dead – doing posthumous “endowments” and baptism for dead people every day but Sunday and Monday in their secret temples worldwide!

The problem is, for many years, official LDS publications consistently portrayed Joseph Smith studying the mystical plates as he dictates their English meaning for his scribe to write down. For example – here is the LDS Ensign magazine cover depicting the process:

Yet now we know from the LDS Church’s own admission, here is what in reality actually transpired:

No “translating” was in reality being done – only “peeping’ or “scrying”. All this while the mystical plates of gold were safely buried outside the house under a tree (according to David Whitmer et. al.)?? What is astonishing to me is that otherwise intelligent people actually believe this end-product is “sacred scripture” even more important spiritually than the Holy Bible!!

Take a good long look at Smith’s magic seer-stone above. Do you really believe that egg-shaped stone glowed in Smith’s darkened hat and magical parchment words appeared??

I ask you: If someone were to make such ludicrous declarations in today’s world, would they not likely end up in an asylum for the criminally insane? And if they did so in order to bilk people out of their money – they would likely be spending time in either a high security prison (or be elected to office in Washington D.C.)

Jimmy: As a missionary at the New York Rochester Mission, I spent six months in the Palmyra area. Many of the local Christian pastors declared Smith used a seerstone to translate the mystical plates – all the while the official LDS position was this was all an anti-Mormon LIE. Who was lying then, and who is full of lies still today? Really – how can you defend such total nonsense????? The LDS Church is simply one big HOAX!

James-I’m wondering why you think Smith’s activity is condoned by God? We are forbidden to do these activities. Why, you might ask? Because God loves us and knows how deceptive familiar spirits can be. Smith’s family history is riddled with delving into this realm.

I am consistently amazed that as myself, learning that our world is not always what we think it is until we shelf our bend toward cognitive bias, to openly think about the issues which are before us; we as humans are all susceptible to this. We however must seek truth at any cost; it is our moral obligation to ourselves and the rest of humanity. When men who daily are lying to the members of a religious organization proclaim to have spiritual authority, they must be held accountable. Members of the church must hold them accountable and let your feet do the walking when one finds out they have been deceiving from Joseph to this very day. The Book of Mormon is painted with early 1800’s ALL OVER THE PAGES. Much of it is nearly a biography of Joseph, the preachers are preaching in 300BC as they did during the second great awakening, and they are baptizing in the name of Jesus in 200BC! In the New Testament, the disciples didn’t even know where Jesus was going let along understand that he was going to rise again…so how were they baptizing in the Book of Mormon in BC with an identification with Christ and our rising again to newness of life. The list goes on and on…

There is FREEDOM in Christ when you break the shackles of having to play min games to fit the puzzle together. I pray you will seek alone after your final high priest and prophet, Jesus Christ James. With love…